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Decision Time expand healthcare client portfolio in wake of cyber attacks

Decision Time managing director Geoff Higgins.
Decision Time managing director Geoff Higgins. Decision Time managing director Geoff Higgins.

ANTRIM-based governance software specialist Decision Time has announced a number of new healthcare contracts.

Leopardstown Hospital, NI Ambulance Service, the Mater Hospital Group and Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board are among the company’s latest clients.

The cloud-based software firm said demand for its governance product has grown significantly in the health sector following a series of high profile cyber-attacks during 2021.

Other customers include Rotunda Hospital, the Southern Health and Social Care Trust, and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

The deals come less than a year after Decision Time was acquired by Advanced, one of the UK's largest providers of business software and services.

Managing director, Geoff Higgans said: “Good governance is perhaps more important in health than in any other sector to ensure patient safety and that organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards.

“It is also essential as part of risk management and security. Decision Time has always had health sector customers, but we have definitely seen a noticeable increase in demand in the past couple of years.”

Ann Marie O’Grady, chief executive of Leopardstown Hospital in Dublin, said the software had helped digitise and streamline processes, saving time.